It must be my lucky day today. It’s just unfortunate that this is not for real.
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From: MR CLARK MORGAN <info@clarkmorgan.com>
Date: Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 10:22 PM
Subject: Greetings: Your ATM CARD Payment
To:
Greetings:
This is to officially inform you that ATM card worth Five hundred Thousand dollars ($500,000.00 USD) has been credited in...
This is just like most of the messages which are being sent out by African crooks. They are not always logical.
You can see that they use various kinds of messages by reading a part of one sentence
contract fund, inheritance or Lottery Wining
Obviously they are trying to catch people who may have been victims before.
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The story is somewhat confused as this message talks about contractors and next of kin. Could it be I am the next of kin to a contractor?
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A lot of the Africans write their messages in capitals. They don’t seem to haver heard that on the Internet it’s like shouting at someone.
I can imagine it has to do with the colonial bureaucratic way of thinking, which these fellows seem to follow.
Oh and by the way, Abel is complaining about my lack of cooperation.
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